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name: tess-initiate
description: "Start a new mission using the legacy flow — equivalent to /add-mission, kept for backward compatibility."
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Tess OS command `/initiate`, packaged as an Agent Skill. Run it only when the user asks for it by name (`$tess-initiate` in Codex).
`$ARGUMENTS` below stands for the text the user supplied with the request (expected: `[mission brief]`).
# /initiate
Legacy alias for [`/add-mission`](../tess-add-mission/SKILL.md). Start a new mission with the brief: **$ARGUMENTS**
Follow the full `/add-mission` flow — three-question intake protocol, framing, task graph, orchestrator designation, routing confirmation before any guild is activated. See [conductor/commands.md](../../../conductor/commands.md) and [conductor/mission-control.md](../../../conductor/mission-control.md). Retained only for backward compatibility; prefer `/add-mission`.
